Famous Quotes & Sayings

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Joe Clark

He was a giant of a man, had an extraordinary impact on the country.

Jane Curtin

He's happy with the form. He's sort of the 'big giant narcissist,' and he's also a big giant drunk.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Wilkie Collins

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Michael Bergin

I never learned to ignore the hot lights and the giant fans. And it all seemed so ridiculous. Run in place. Look angry. Look at me like you love me.

Ramez Naam

In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.

James Hansen

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.

James Fallows

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Elizabeth Bowen

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality

It's a very good program. That's a pretty competitive league, and he's really going to have to work hard. They've got some big, giant people in that league. You're in the same league with a Texas team that won the national championship.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Talk shows and public opinion are standing off this giant coalition.

Charles Schumer

not a panacea, but it's a giant step forward.

It's fish. Giant fish, some about 15 meters (50 feet) long.

Murray Rothbard

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

Mark Buchanan

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Ellen Hopkins

Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

This movement is like a sleeping giant that has awakened. Some people have called this the next civil-rights movement.

Woody Johnson

It is our intention to be partners with the Giants in perpetuity.

It really was just one giant publicity stunt to promote the resort.

David Starr

They're making them more like the trucks. The trucks push a giant hole in the air, and we can really race each other. That's what NASCAR wants with this car.

At first, we had to go over a lot of basics. These girls were like giant sponges. They soaked up every lesson they learned.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Neil Armstrong

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Bill Murray

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

Dennis Miller

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Robin Hobb

Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons.

The sleeping giant has awoken. I don't think Minnesota has probably seen a march this big in quite a while.

Richard Flanagan

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

E. B. White

I've seen a guy reeling in a giant tarpon on a Stella. The reel literally glows.

Jim Calhoun

These are two giant tests. I told our guys at a team meeting that we're 22-1 and 9-1, but we still have more tests. We've got to keep proving it and proving it.

This is essentially a giant purchasing pool. It's not a lot more than that.